 De Jong, in her world champion skin-suit riding during a 2016 cyclo-cross race at Cauberg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 6 November 1993 Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | JEGG–DJR Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2019 | Multum Accountants Ladies | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Chevalmeire Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | JEGG–DJR Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2012–2016 | Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Lares–Waowdeals | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Experza–Footlogix | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Chevalmeire Cycling Team[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Thalita de Jong (born 6 November 1993) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for Dutch amateur team JEGG–DJR Academy.[3] In 2016, de Jong won the elite women's title at the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships, the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships.[4]
She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence.[5] She won gold at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Zolder, Belgium.[6]
After five years with Rabo–Liv, in August 2016 Lares–Waowdeals announced that de Jong would join them for the 2017 season, leading the team on the road and in cyclo-cross.[7] De Jong suffered a 2017 cyclocross season ending injury, falling at the Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel. Medical issues plagued her 2017 road season, by the end of the year, de Jong signed with the former Sport Vlaanderen–Guill D'or as it became Experza–Footlogix in 2018.[8][9] During the 2019 season, she joined the Chevalmeire Cycling Team.[10] She remained with the team until early in the 2022 season. Following several top-five finishes in the spring with JEGG–DJR Academy, de Jong will join Liv Racing–Xstra from June, a team she had previously turned professional with.[11]
She is the older sister of fellow professional cyclist, Demi de Jong.
UCI World Championships
National Championships
UEC European Championships Time trial
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Sprints classification
Young rider classification
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Time trial
Young rider classficiation Young rider classficiation
Mountains classification
